The party competes against the Liberal / National Coalition for political office at the federal and state ( and sometimes local ) level.

While the Blue Dog Coalition is made up of House members, the term " Blue Dog " is sometimes used informally for Democratic senators, governors, or state legislators who resemble the Blue Dog Coalition positions based on their politics.

Although, sometimes disruptive and willing to break the law, members of the Student Environmental Action Coalition or SEACers ( as they call themselves ) are prepared to do what it takes to get their message received.

The all-party coalitions of Herbert Henry Asquith and David Lloyd George in the First World War and of Winston Churchill in the Second World War were sometimes referred to as National Governments at the time, but are now more commonly called Coalition Governments.

The term is sometimes also used, in rhetoric and polemics, in contrast to a so-called " Takings Coalition ", whose constituent elements -- such as welfare recipients, government employees, unions, and companies or non-profits benefiting from government contracts, protectionism or other state action -- all depend on government spending, mandates, or preferences for their livelihood, rather than free markets or voluntarism.

Opponents of the Red-Green Coalition sometimes refer to this coalition by other names.

Interpretations of Aboriginal history became part of the wider political debate sometimes called the ' culture wars ' during the tenure of the Coalition government from 1996 – 2007, with the Prime Minister of Australia John Howard publicly championing the views of some of those associated with Quadrant.

His second tour of joint duty with the Joint Special Operations Command included operations in Somalia ; Commander, 2d Brigade, 101st Airborne Division ( Air Assault ); Assistant Division Commander for Operations, 82d Airborne Division ; Chief of Staff, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg ; Chief of Office of Military Cooperations, Cairo, Egypt ; Commander, 82d Airborne Division from August 2000 until October 2002 ; Commander, Coalition Task Force 82, in Afghanistan from 1 September 2002 until 1 May 2003 ; and then Commander, Combined / Joint Task Force-180, Bagram, Afghanistan, until October 2003 ; Commander, Multi-National Corps Iraq in Baghdad from January 2005 until January 2006.

Section from verses 73 of Sura al-AhzabSurat Al-Ahzab ( ) ( The Clans, The Coalition, The Combined Forces ) is the 33rd sura of the Qur ' an with 73 ayat.

Throughout their year in sustained combat, the Marines and Sailors of VMA-513 (-) ( REIN ) provided close air support, armed reconnaissance, and combat escort for the United States and over 20 Coalition countries of the Combined Joint Task Force 180.

In June 2010, the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan published the report ' Unpaid Debt ', arguing why Lundin may have been complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity.

At their initial meeting the Coalition also adopted the slogan ' Against the racist backlash ', asserting that a war against Afghanistan would be perceived as an attack on Islam and that Muslims, or those perceived as Muslim, would apparently face racist attacks in Britain if the government joined the war ( even though Islam is a religious, rather than ethnic, identity ).

In December Labour, with Fine Gael and Democratic Left formed a coalition government, referred to as the ' Rainbow Coalition ', before an election was called.

In the ' Rainbow Coalition ', between 1994 and 1997, Gilmore served as Minister of State at the Department of the Marine where he is credited for overseeing major reform in port ownership, investment in port development, banning nuclear vessels from Irish seas and restricting dumping at sea.

The ' Government Coalition Platform of the Social Democratic Alliance and Left-Green Movement ', published on the 19 May 2009 stated that " A single marriage act will be adopted.

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* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

* In the Rifts RPG, the capital of the Coalition States is the city of Chi-Town.

Along with some of the other major Coalition cities, Chi-Town is considered a " Mega-City " in that its entire population is housed inside one giant structure consisting of more than thirty levels, each of which are several stories high and contain a number of sub-levels.

* 1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition.

The classic French historiography often refers to Coalition troops three times more numerous than those of the King of France ( Philip Contamine is not of this opinion: " In front, his opponents did not have a clear numerical superiority ").

The current Senate composition is as follows: 20 seats are held by the Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ): Six Christian Democrats ( PDC ), eight Socialists ( PS ), three Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and three Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 17 by the Alliance for Chile ( APC ): nine Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and eight National Renewal ( RN ); and one independent leaning right.

Coalition cabinets are common in countries in which a parliament is proportionally representative, with several organized political parties represented.

The CLP vote is often tabulated together with either of its coalition partners in many election results tables, or included within a single Coalition vote.

The conservative party in Finland is the National Coalition Party ( in Finnish Kansallinen Kokoomus, Kok ).

Dennett is a firm atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement.

The Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ; 民主進步黨 ) is a political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, and the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition.

The Grand Coalition lasted 1966 – 69 and is best known for reducing tensions with the Soviet bloc nations and establishing diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia.

* 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.

Loach is supporting the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition in the London Assembly election, 2012 He wrote a letter to The Observer in 2012 condemning the Globe theatre for allowing an Israeli theatre company to perform there.

While northern Taiwan leans towards the Pan-Blue Coalition in the state-level elections, southern Taiwan leaned towards the Pan-Green Coalition since late 1990s, and Kaohsiung is no exception.

During Napoleon's invasion of Prussia during the War of the Fourth Coalition, the town was besieged from mid-March to July 2, 1807, by the Grande Armée and by Polish forces drawn from insurgents against Prussian rule ( a street named for the commander leading Polish soldiers is located within the present-day city ).

* 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition – the Treaty of Paris ( 1814 ) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.

In most states, the Coalition agreement is not in force when the parties are in opposition, allowing the two parties greater freedom of action.

Traditionally, the leader of the National Party serves as Deputy Prime Minister when the Coalition is in government.

It is set between July 22, 2155 and July 22, 2156, and details the war between the Coalition of planets and the Romulan Star Empire.

Another secularist organization is the Secular Coalition for America.

While Secular Coalition for America is linked to many secular humanistic organizations and many secular humanists support it, as with the Secular Society, some non-humanists support it.

The Hague Academic Coalition ( HAC ) is a consortium of those institutions.

After eight years in opposition, the Coalition won the federal election of December 1949 and Menzies began his record-setting second term as Prime Minister.

However, the Coalition was only assured of another term in government when Moreton was called for Liberal Jim Killen, giving the Coalition a precarious one-seat majority.

The Coalition won a second term nearly as easily in 1977.

More recently, the term " Allied forces " has also been used to describe the Coalition of the Gulf War, as opposed to forces the Multi-National Force in Iraq which are commonly referred to as " Coalition forces " or, as by the George W. Bush administration, " The coalition of the willing ".

The term brownfields first came into use on June 28, 1992, at a U. S. congressional field hearing hosted by the Northeast Midwest Congressional Coalition.

The Bush administration briefly used the term " Coalition of the Willing " to refer to the countries who supported, militarily or verbally, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent military presence in post-invasion Iraq.

Ultimately, a narrow loss in Bruce, located in the DLP's heartland of Melbourne, ended any realistic chance of a Labor win, though the Coalition wasn't assured of another term in government until the Brisbane-area seat of Moreton was called for the Liberals hours later.

After the so-called " Wars of Liberation " ( Befreiungskriege, the German term for the German part of the War of the Sixth Coalition ), many contemporaries had expected a nation-state solution and thus considered the subdivision of Germany as unsatisfactory.

In June 2011 Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury created a furor as guest editor by claiming that the Coalition government had introduced ' radical, long term policies for which no one had voted ' and in doing so had created ' anxiety and anger ' among many in the country.

However, with Snedden's win, the best Labor could hope for was a hung parliament, though the Coalition wasn't assured of another term in government until later in the night, with its narrow victory in Moreton.

His decision to support the Coalition ensured a second term in government for Greiner.

* Small-l liberal-a term used by LFF candidates to describe themselves in order to attract the support of mildly disenchanted Coalition voters

A Coalition deal between the Labour Alignment and Likud stipulated that Shimon Peres would be Prime Minister for the first two years of the Knesset term ( out of four years ), with Yitzhak Shamir serving as the designated Acting Prime Minister, and then swap places with Shamir for the next two.

For instance, the Safe Schools Coalition of Washington's Glossary for School Employees advises that gay is the " preferred synonym for homosexual ", and goes on to advise avoiding the term homosexual as it is " clinical, distancing and archaic ":

The Coalition ran a successful fear campaign on the issue and this became one of the keystones which helped it win a successive fourth term.

Throughout her first term, Cunningham generally supported the Coalition government however statistically, the opposition was more successful than an opposition usually is in relation to amendments to legislation and other motions.

Nevertheless, the National Coalition candidate supported Koivisto, who was elected to his second term.

Fixed term parliaments were introduced by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 following the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement promulgated after the 2010 election, thereby abolishing the ability of the Prime Minister to unilaterally call an election prior to the expiry of the five-year term.

Elliot's win was one of the few victories for the Labor Party as the Coalition easily won a fourth term in government.